Ethical Decisions Scenario AnalysisFor each of the following scenarios answer the questions and explain whether your answers fit with traditional or modern ethical thinking. After you have finished responding to the scenarios, discuss whether you generally make ethical decisions using a traditional or a modern ethical model. Provide an example using an experience you have had in your daily life. | | |Scenario One | |You are a manager at your current company. You receive a call requesting a character reference for an employee you know to be | |unreliable and dishonest but who has not broken any rule directly. | |a. What should you tell the prospective employer? | |b. What type of information would you tell the prospective employer? | |c. How would what you share be to your advantage or disadvantage? | | | | | |Response to Questions | | | |a) As manager of this employee, I would have to tell the prospective employer only what is factual and not elaborate on my | |suspicions. Meaning that I could not state my personal opinion about the employee being unreliable and dishonest if no rules were | |broken and the employee was never reprimanded for bad behaviors. | |b) Since this is a character reference then only character type information may be given. In this case the character reference may | |include what good qualities the employee has, a good team worker, learns quickly, etc. If there were no good characteristics, then a| |polite no thank you would have to do. | |c) The advantages come in the form of not being sued by anyone for badmouthing the employee and maybe the employee will actually get | |the other job, therefore not your problem anymore. This is really a damn if I do or do not situation and has to be handled in a | |competent manner. | |The only disadvantage I can see with this situation is not being able to warn the prospective employer about the bad characteristics | |of this employee but without any reprimands or facts to back up the words it is not an option. | | | | | | | |...

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Appendix C
EthicalDecisionsScenario Analysis
For each of the following scenarios answer the questions and explain whether your answers fit with traditional or modern ethical thinking. After you have finished responding to the scenarios, discuss whether you generally make ethicaldecisions using a traditional or a modern ethical model. Provide an example using an experience you have had in your daily life.
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|Scenario One |
|You are a manager at your current company. You receive a call requesting a character reference for an employee you know to be |
|unreliable and dishonest but who has not broken any rule directly. |
|What should you tell the prospective employer? |
|What type of information would you tell the prospective employer? |
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